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18 years ago
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Had a little accident the other day and slipped down a short flight of stairs. Skinned the shit our of one knee, and managed to severly hyper-extended the other which needless to say really f*cked up the ligaments and tendons. I'm lucky I didn't break the damn knee. It's been a week and I'm just now to the point where I can stand on my right leg a little and sort of hobble around. Up 'til now all I've been able to do is sit propped up on the couch and keep off of it.
And there really isn't anything the doctors can do about it. Nothing's broke or torn, just severly strained. So the only thing that can really be done with it is stay off of it and give it time.
Talk about being bored out of your skull! And of course the weather outside is beautiful. Bright, crisp late summer/ early fall New England days, delighfully chilly nights. Perfect weather for working out in the yard, going for long walks and I can't do anything but look out the window. Can't even work on any of my new sculptures because my work room is down in the basement.
And to think there are some people for whom lounging around all day and doing nothing but watching television is their idea of heaven. It's driving me batty! And I can't even waste time one the computer because my knee won't tolerate being bent while sitting in a chair for more than 20 minutes or so. Then it's a handful of pain meds and another 30 minutes waiting for the throbbing an burning to stop. But that's still more than I was able to do last week.
Hopefully by this time next week I'll be back to something close to normal. There won't be any long walks for a while, but I'm hoping to at least be able to hobble my ass down stairs and get back to work. The big October craft fair is less than a month away and I need those sculptures done!
And there really isn't anything the doctors can do about it. Nothing's broke or torn, just severly strained. So the only thing that can really be done with it is stay off of it and give it time.
Talk about being bored out of your skull! And of course the weather outside is beautiful. Bright, crisp late summer/ early fall New England days, delighfully chilly nights. Perfect weather for working out in the yard, going for long walks and I can't do anything but look out the window. Can't even work on any of my new sculptures because my work room is down in the basement.
And to think there are some people for whom lounging around all day and doing nothing but watching television is their idea of heaven. It's driving me batty! And I can't even waste time one the computer because my knee won't tolerate being bent while sitting in a chair for more than 20 minutes or so. Then it's a handful of pain meds and another 30 minutes waiting for the throbbing an burning to stop. But that's still more than I was able to do last week.
Hopefully by this time next week I'll be back to something close to normal. There won't be any long walks for a while, but I'm hoping to at least be able to hobble my ass down stairs and get back to work. The big October craft fair is less than a month away and I need those sculptures done!
